Re: New Site: New Language: Tyl-Sjok

Henrik Theiling wrote:

> > What I like the most about Tyl-Sjok is that its has active
> > case marking based on control in combination with being
> > isolating. Very nice!
>
> Nice to hear that! :-) I also love active case marking, but it makes
> it so complicated to get things consistent.
> E.g. one example I came up last week-end: in the sentence:
>    `The sun is shining.'
>
> Is the sun in control?  What about
>    `The moon is shining.'
>
> To be (overly?) correct, I decided that the sun is agent, but the moon
> is patient. :-)
In Tokana, I got around this problem by treating "shine" as a state rather
than an activity.  Intransitive verbs denoting states take the absolutive
case in Tokana (unless they denote mental or emotional states, in which
case they take the dative).

Matt.

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